United Party member and communicator Solomon Owusu has revealed that his initial reaction to the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the case involving former Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) CEO Sedina Tamakloe changed after he read the full judgment.
Owusu said he first came across reports indicating that Tamakloe had been acquitted and discharged, a development that left him visibly upset.
“When the Court of Appeal came with their ruling, I was somewhere when my brother sent me breaking news that Sedina Tamakloe had been acquitted and discharged. Instantly, I was boiled up. I was so furious that why should that happen?” he said on Joy Prime.
According to him, his immediate response was to criticise the outcome, but he decided to hold back until he had read the court’s reasoning.
“We were going to go ballistic, but something struck us. Hold on, wait a minute. You must be a wise person. You must hear from both sides,” he stated.
Owusu said instead of relying on headlines and public commentary, he waited several hours to obtain the full Court of Appeal judgment.
“I waited for like three hours and thankfully I got the full judgment,” he said.
He disclosed that he personally printed and bound the 94-page document before spending hours studying it.
“I expended money to print it. The little that I get, I use it to print. I printed it, bound it and took four hours to read it,” he explained.
Owusu said reading the judgment gave him a broader understanding of the issues considered by the three-member panel of the Court of Appeal before arriving at its decision.
